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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 478 Collections and/or Records:

Kate Starks letters

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1238
Scope and Contents This collection comprises typed copies of letters from Kate Starks and others to Leander Starks ranging from 1859 to 1865 before and during the U.S. Civil War.
Dates: 1859-1865

Kellogg and Plessinger family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1480
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence and documents of the Kellogg and Plessinger families ranging from 1832 to 1920. There are a large number of letters from Francis Nelson Kellogg to his parents and sister while serving with Company K, 75th Indiana Regiment during the U.S. Civil War and typewritten transcriptions of most of his letters; letters from Benjamin F. Wiley and James B. Plessinger while they were serving in the war; and a letter and two invoices from J. W. Keely, acting assistant...
Dates: 1832-1920

Kendallville, Indiana Fair collection

 Collection — Folder S1988
Identifier: S1988
Scope and Contents This collection includes a commercially printed advertisement from Kendallville Fair in Kendallville, Indiana ranging from 1907/09/23 to 1907/09/27 regarding attending the fair. On the verso, there is Confederate currency of $500.00, dated February 17, 1864.
Dates: 1907

Kenneth M. Stampp collection

 Collection — Folder S1234
Identifier: S1234
Scope and Contents This collection contains 2 copies of Letters from the Washington Peace Conference of 1861, edited by Kenneth M. Stampp. The letters were originally published in “The Journal of Southern History” Vol. IX, No. 3 August 1943. The letters are to Indiana Governor Oliver P. Morton from the Convention delegates.
Dates: 1861

Kinzer family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0784
Scope and Contents This collection includes photocopies of Jacob Kinzer's pocket diary from 1865, a journal written by Jacob or William Kinzer during a trip west in 1869, and a pocket diary from 1870. Also included are photocopies of Jacob Kinzer's draft notice, dated November 16, 1864, and a house rental agreement between Jacob Kinzer and William Ballard, dated March 15, 1865.
Dates: 1864-1970

Kirkpatrick family collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1948
Scope and Contents This collection includes materials collected by members of the Kirkpatrick family from 1860 to 1934. The collection is primarily correspondence from Captain Thomas Kirkpatrick of Kokomo, Indiana ranging from 1863 to 1888 regarding matters of the 13th Indiana Volunteer Infantry and also includes news clippings, cards, pressed flowers, ribbons, and a scrapbook.

There are also two land grants from 1849 issued to Francis O'Dowd for land in Winamac and in Indianapolis (OB103).
Dates: 1849-1934

Knights of the Golden Circle clipping

 Collection — Folder S1601
Identifier: S1601
Scope and Contents This collection comprises a newspaper clipping from the Indianapolis Journal dated August 4, 1862 concerning "treasonable organizations in Indiana," specifically the Knights of the Golden Circle, during the U.S. Civil War.
Dates: 1862/08/04

Knights of the Golden Circle collection

 Collection — Folder S0353
Identifier: S0353
Scope and Contents This collection includes a 5-page manuscript Mary Adeline Denny in Indianapolis, Indiana on December 4, 1924, entitled “How the Capture of Indianapolis by the Knights of the Golden Circle, August 16, 1864, during the Civil War Was Prevented.”
Dates: 1864

L. N. Rosenthal, "Hoosier City" lithograph

 Collection — Folder S2837
Identifier: S2837
Scope and Contents This collection includes one lithograph from L. N. Rosenthal depicting Camp Hallack near Frederick City, Maryland in the winter of 1862 showing the encampment of the 27th Indiana Volunteer Infantry.
Dates: 1862

LaGrange County collection

 Collection — Folder S1683-01
Identifier: S1683
Scope and Contents The collection consists of three items from LaGrange County, Indiana, including an undated advertising card for the Lima Manufacturing Company's Queen windmill in Lima, Indiana (currently Howe); a short, typed history of the LaGrange courthouse of 1843 and an account of a gavel made of the wood from the 1843 courthouse, which the LaGrange de Lafayette chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) returned to LaGrange County, after 1923; and a seven-page, typed narrative by Dan Wisel...
Dates: 1843-1934